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" I was not always someone who wanted to get married or thought I would get married, so being a true writer, I was always navel-gazing: 'What are good marriages? What are bad marriages?' "

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" I like westerns, fantasy, sci-fi, graphic novels, thrillers, and I try to avoid the word 'genre' altogether. A good book is a good book. "

Gillian Flynn

Fantasy

Try

" I was not a nice little girl. My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spiders. "

" It seems like the darker the books are, the nicer the person is. People say it's the romance writers you've got to watch out for. "

" I love 'Fatal Attraction.' "

" I love Robin Wright's character in 'House of Cards' because she's a bona fide villain. She's a not-nice person in a believable way; you can see her working in the world. "

" That's always been part of my goal - to show the dark side of women. Men write about bad men all the time, and they're called antiheroes. "

" I am a great believer in jobs for teens. They teach important life lessons, build character, and inflict just the right amount of humiliation necessary for future success in the working world. "

" I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere. "

" I just think - the Midwest, if you grow up there, you're deathly afraid of putting on airs. Any time a Midwesterner criticizes someone, it's usually involving some form of being too big for your britches. "

" My first job had me miscast as a bubbly shopgirl; I was pathologically shy and, thus, tended to replace human speech with excessive head gestures. It was like being waited on by Harpo Marx. "

Gillian Flynn

Job

Shy

" My dad was a film professor, so he would take me to wildly inappropriate movies. "

Gillian Flynn

Take

Professor

" I'm probably a guy's girl, although I hate that phrase. I tend to have more close male friends than I do female friends, and I always have. I would say that of my 10 close friends, seven are men. "

" I liked the idea of a whodunit revolving around a marriage. "

" Very quickly, I discovered I did not have what it takes to be a good crime reporter: I was too unassertive and a little bit wimpy. It was very clear that was not what I was going to do, but I loved journalism, and I'm the daughter of a film professor, and my mom taught reading. "

" We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style. "

" I don't think I'm naturally a good person. I think some people have an innate goodness to them, and I am sort of proud of the fact that I kind of keep myself in check, probably because I have awesome parents. "

" I tend to write about dark things that happen in a very domestic setting 'cause that, to me, is much scarier than the unknown. "

Gillian Flynn

Things

Dark

" I was very lucky to grow up in a household that really valued storytelling and didn't find it frivolous. "

" I'm not much of a procedural person. That's not what I'm interested in. "

" I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop. "

" I do love 'The Turn of the Screw' - I just think that one's always so disturbing. "

" As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control. "

" I was a quirky kid. I think that's the kind way of putting it. "

" I think that women really entwine with the people that they become close to in a way that men don't - and so, when they are forced to disentwine, you can't remove the vines without doing some damage. "

" Even good characters have their dark sides, and I think it is important that women aren't seen as innately good. "

" I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things? "

Gillian Flynn

Why

Kind

" There are no really new stories anymore. "

" As a kid in the eighties, I didn't need much disposable income. I went to Catholic school - white shirt, plaid skirt - so fashion choices were limited. But youth finds a way. For me and my schoolmates, neon argyle socks were a crucial barometer of coolness. Hair ribbons, too, and they didn't come cheap. "

" I find, the older I get, the more surprised I am about how hesitant people are to say what they really want, what they really dream about, what really drives them. It's as if sometimes we're sort of embarrassed, as we get older, to be transparent about that. But you save so much time if you're transparent about what you want. "

" I love a good worst-case scenario. My brain just kind of works that way. I like that idea of how much a person can get away with, and why. "